Avast!

[p-hawk]

All ye landlubbers, be afeared! Today we pirates prowl about yon internets!

[url="http://www.talklikeapirate.com/piratehome.html#"]National Talk Like a Pirate Day[/url]

[Smile_Jesus_loves_you]

Arrgh!

Says who??

[p-hawk]

[quote name='Smile_Jesus_loves_you' date='Sep 19 2005, 10:55 AM']Arrgh!

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The Cap'n, 'ats who.

[Sojourner]

I love TLAP day!!!

One of my favorite authors, Dave Eggers, has a [url="http://www.826valencia.org/store/"]Pirate shop[/url] which helps support a writing program in San Francisco.

[scardella]

As long as we don't have to cut off our leg and replace it w/ a wooden peg, matey!

Maybe we should all go to Ars (France)!

[homeschoolmom]

we did this last year!!

ar... beware my mighty sailing vessal

[p0lar_bear]

Dave Barry's article on National Talk Like A Pirate Day

[quote]Arrrrr! Talk like a pirate -- or prepare to be boarded

DAVE BARRY


Every now and then, some visionary individuals come along with a concept that is so original and so revolutionary that your immediate reaction is: ``Those individuals should be on medication.''

Today I want to tell you about two such people, John Baur and Mark Summers, who have come up with a concept that is going to make you kick yourself for not thinking of it first: Talk Like a Pirate Day. As the name suggests, this is a day on which everybody would talk like a pirate. Is that a great idea, or what? There are so many practical benefits that I can't even begin to list them all.

Baur and Summers came up with this idea a few years ago. They were playing racquetball, and, as so often happens, they began talking like pirates. And then it struck them: Why not have a day when EVERYBODY talks like a pirate? They decided that the logical day would be Sept. 19, because that -- as you are no doubt aware -- is Summers' ex-wife's birthday.

Since then, Baur and Summers have made a near-superhuman effort to promote Talk Like a Pirate Day. As Baur puts it: ``We've talked like pirates, and encouraged our several friends to, every Sept. 19, except for a couple where we forgot.''

And yet, incredibly, despite this well-orchestrated campaign, the nation has turned a deaf shoulder to Talk Like a Pirate Day. In desperation, Baur and Summers turned to me for help. As an influential newspaper columnist, I have the power to ''make or break'' a national day. You may recall that almost nobody celebrated Thanksgiving until I began writing about it in the 1970s.

I have given Baur's and Summers' idea serious thought, looking for ways to improve it. One variation I considered was Talk Like a Member of the Lollipop Guild Day, on which everybody would talk like the three Munchkins in the film version of The Wizard of Oz who welcome Dorothy to Munchkin Land by singing with one corner of their mouths drooping down, as though they have large invisible dental suction devices hanging from their lips. But I realized that would be stupid.

So I have decided to throw my full support behind Talk Like a Pirate Day, to be observed this Sept. 19. To help promote this important cause, I have decided to seek the endorsement of famous celebrities, and I am pleased to report that, as of today, Tom Cruise, Julia Roberts, Britney Spears, Brad Pitt, Oprah Winfrey, the Osbournes, Tiger Woods, Ted Koppel, the Sopranos, Puff Doody and the late Elvis Presley are all people who I hope will read this column and become big supporters. I see no need to recruit President Bush, because he already talks like a pirate, as we can see from this transcript of a recent White House press conference:

REPORTER: Could you please explain either your foreign or your domestic policy?

PRESIDENT BUSH: Arrrrr.

To prepare for Talk Like a Pirate Day, you should practice incorporating pirate terminology into your everyday speech. For example, let's consider a typical conversation between two co-workers in a business office:

BOB: Hi. Mary.

MARY: Hi, Bob. Have you had a chance to look at the Fennerman contract?

BOB: Yes, and I have some suggestions.

MARY: OK, I'll review them.

Now let's see how this same conversation would sound on Talk Like a Pirate Day:

BOB: Avast, me beauty.

MARY: Avast, Bob. Is that a yardarm in your doubloons, or are you just glad to see me?

BOB: You are giving me the desire to haul some keel.

MARY: Arrrrr.

As you can see, talking like a pirate will infuse your everyday conversations with romance and danger. So join the movement! On Sept. 19, do not answer the phone with ''hello.'' Answer the phone with ''Ahoy me hearty!'' If the caller objects that he is not a hearty, inform him that he is a scurvy dog (or, if the caller is female, a scurvy female dog) who will be walking the plank off the mushy mud pie deck and winding up in Davy Jones' locker, sleeping with the fishes. No, wait, that would be Talk Like a Pirate in The Godfather Day, which is another variation I considered (``I'm gonna make him an offer that will shiver his timbers'').

But the point is, this is a great idea, and you, me bucko, should be part of it. Join us on Sept. 19. You HAVE the buckles, darn it: Don't be afraid to swash them! Let's make this into a grass-roots movement that sweeps the nation, like campaign-finance reform, or Krispy Kreme doughnuts. I truly think this idea could bring us, as a nation, closer together.

But not TOO much closer. Some of us will have swords.
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[sweetpea316]

Aww man...and I was thisclose to buying a pirate hat this weekend....blast. Today would've been the perfect day for it...

Maybe next year...

[Piccoli Fiori JMJ]

Arrr... here's today's Gospel translated into Pirate ye land lubbers!

[quote]Daily Gospel

Lk 8:16-18 - 16: "Nay one aft lightin' a lamp covers it with a vessel, or puts it under a bed, but puts it on a stand, that those who enter may see the light 17: For nothin' be hid that shall not be made manifest, nary a anythin' secret that shall not be known 'n come t' light. (Yaaarrrr!) 18: Take heed then how ye hear; for t' him who has will more be given, 'n from him who has not, even what he thinks that he has will be taken away." [/quote]

[Piccoli Fiori JMJ]

Mother Angelica is already prepared for the event...

[img]http://img8.exs.cx/img8/3848/pirate_nun.jpg[/img]

[Piccoli Fiori JMJ]

Arg...

Your pirate name is:
Mad Anne Bonney
Every pirate is a little bit crazy. You, though, are more than just a little bit. You can be a little bit unpredictable, but a pirate's life is far from full of certainties, so that fits in pretty well. Arr!

[url="http://www.fidius.org/quiz/pirate/"]http://www.fidius.org/quiz/pirate/[/url]
Find Your Pirate Name



your pirate name is
Keeper Anne the Purple

[url="http://www.froggynet.com/cgi-bin/pirate.cgi"]http://www.froggynet.com/cgi-bin/pirate.cgi[/url]

[Piccoli Fiori JMJ]

Avast! We must be send'n thar other thread down to Davey Jones locker!

[Piccoli Fiori JMJ]

[quote name='FutureNunJMJ' date='Sep 19 2005, 12:28 PM']Avast!  We must be send'n thar other thread down to Davey Jones locker!
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Them filthy dogs be taking over this 'ere phorum! The black spot be upon ye!

Feed ye to the fishes! There might be some dancin' with Jack Ketch! Arrrr...

Make ye kiss the gunner's daughter...

Arrrrg...

[Piccoli Fiori JMJ]

We'll have your lights and liver still...

[stargirl3:16]

Arr, me be known as Iron Grace Flint, Scourge of the Seven Seas. (Also Lackey Grainne O'Malley.)

[Dreamweaver]

Yaaarggh! There were 2 pirates at our school today! Me and my mates were tempted to chase after them with our plastic knives and make them walk the plank!

When will the whole Bible be translated into Pirate-speak?

[shelly_freak]

"we're seven deadly pirates, we're the seven deadly sins...."

[Catholictothecore]

creepy



Dudette, Jezic, LGLG....let's pack our backs, this lots gone off the deep end!

[Piccoli Fiori JMJ]

[quote name='Dreamweaver' date='Sep 19 2005, 03:15 PM']When will the whole Bible be translated into Pirate-speak?
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When the Vatican hires some Pirate Jesuits or something :

[p-hawk]

[quote name='FutureNunJMJ' date='Sep 19 2005, 10:42 PM']When the Vatican hires some Pirate Jesuits or something  :
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Shiver me timbers! Aye, 'twould be grand! 'Specially if they chanted the Ave Marrrrrrrrria.